On the eve of the busiest travel days of the year, Rep. Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, on Tuesday unveiled a bill that would pump about $250 million during the next five years into more police officers and safety measures such as taller fare gates and weapons detectors for the nation’s public transit agencies.

The Safe and Affordable Transit Act is an effort to reduce traffic and clean the air in the nation’s largest cities by creating safer bus, light-rail and subway systems, thereby encouraging more residents to leave their cars at home and ride public transit, Friedman said.

“This bill is about giving people confidence so that every family can feel safe taking public transit,” said Friedman, speaking at a press event at the Amtrak and Metrolink train station located across the street fro

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